Tuesday, August 18, 2015

Paul Craig Roberts -- Gullible Americans Forever

“Next the statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting
the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those
conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to
examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself
that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after
this process of grotesque self-deception.”

Mark Twain

Listening to NPR news today I was reminded how
throughly this once independent voice has sold out.

I was also reminded of the Mark Twain quote above. NPR
reported that Syrians were lined up in Turkey waiting on passage on inflatable
rafts to Greece. According to the NPR report, there are 2 million Syrian
refugees in Turkey and 250,000 Syrians have been killed. NPR said nothing about
the cause of this murder and displacement of vast numbers of people. It was if
the plight of these people materialized out of thin air. The fact that
Washington sicced ISIS, al Qaeda, Turkey, the US and NATO Air Forces, and
Washington’s Middle Eastern vassals on Syria was not mentioned. The view on NPR
is the same as Washington’s — that if only Assad would resign and hand Syria
over to Washington, everything would be fine.

Americans don’t go to bed every night unable to sleep
from shame from the atrocities that the US government has inflicted on Syria.
And on Iraq. And Libya. And Afghanistan. And Pakistan. And Yemen. And Somalia.
And Ukraine. And Serbia. According to the prostitute media, all of these human
catastrophes are the work of dark forces that America must combat. It is all a
clever orchestration of public emotion in favor of the military/security
complex’s bank balance.

The corruption of public discourse in America, indeed
throughout the West, is total. There are no reliable reports, not from public
or private institutions. The economic reports are propaganda to keep alive the
image of a successful America. The reports about Russia, Ukraine, and Muslims
are propaganda designed to inculcate fear in the gullible, fear that ensures
more power and profit for Washington and the military/security complex.

Americans have proven themselves to be the easiest
sheep ever to be shorn.